With the clock ticking and the opening of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on the immediate horizon, Ambassador Hermano Telles Ribeiro, consul general of Brazil in Atlanta and a soccer...
Category: Culture
Georgia Tech’s ‘Synlab’ Inspired by African Map and Artifacts Exhibition
The similarities between a lukasa board and a personal computer are amazing. Or you can go further and say that equally amazing are the similarities between a lukasa board and...
TomorrowWorld Music Festival Returning to Atlanta
TomorrowWorld, the American incarnation of the European electronic music festival TomorrowLand, has opened ticket sales for its return to Atlanta this September. Modeled after the annual event held in Boom, Belgium,...
Personal Ornamentation Points to Deeper Beauty in India
While Americans wear jewelry mostly to make fashion statements, Indian women adorn themselves to reveal deeper truths about their culture and family relationships, a religion professor said at Emory University’s annual India Summit. ...
Former Peace Corps Volunteer Wins Global Atlanta Holiday Contest
Susan Caster, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1977-81, was the winner of Global Atlanta’s “Winter Wonderland” contest held over the Christmas holidays. The contest asked...
German Group Brings World Cup Ball to Atlanta
In contrast to the hyper-competition surrounding the FIFA World Cup, the Spirit of Football, a non-governmental organization based in Erfurt, Germany, celebrates soccer as a means of promoting tolerance, fair...
Soccer Spurs Passion, Profits Across Americas and Beyond
As with any global phenomenon, soccer can’t be defined in one dimension. As speakers at Global Atlanta’s recent Seeing the World Through Soccer event attested, it’s more than a game that...
Nuremberg Seeks Atlanta Journalist for Urban Poverty Grant
Atlanta’s German sister city is seeking applications for a biannual grant for writers that this year will focus on urban poverty issues. Nuremberg’s international relations department hosts journalists, artists, film...
Soccer Event Series Continues With Latin America Focus
Sealing a deal internationally requires some cross-cultural finesse, and nowhere are relationships more important to business than in Latin America. On Feb. 4, Global Atlanta, again in partnership with the Georgia Institute of...
Sochi Snapshots: Atlanta Photographer Trains Lens on Winter Olympics
Atlanta-based freelance photographer Kevin Liles, an alumnus of Clayton State University, is blogging from an assignment in Sochi, Russia, the host of the controversial 2014 Winter Olympics. Mr. Liles has worked on newspapers around Georgia and...